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Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

Ben Horowitz

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management

Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

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